Tales of Legendia (2005) (VG)

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Yuichiro Sadahiro

Writers:

Kouki Matsumoto (script writer: Romancework)
Go Tanaka (script writer: Romancework)

Release Date:

7 February 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery

Plot Keywords:

Flashback | Friend | Betrayal | Anime | Friendship

Cast

Masumi Asano	...	Chloe Valens (voice: Japanese version)
Susumu Chiba	...	Will Raynard (voice: Japanese version)
Ryô Hirohashi	...	Shirley Fennes (voice: Japanese version)
Ayako Kawasumi	...	Grune (voice: Japanese version)
Kaori Mizuhashi	...	Norma Beatty (voice: Japanese version)
Kazuya Nakai	...	Moses Sandor (voice: Japanese version)
Ryoko Shiraishi	...	Jay (voice: Japanese version)
Kenichi Suzumura	...	Senel Coolidge (voice: Japanese version)

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

South Korea:All | USA:T

Company:

Namco

Quotes:

Norma Beatty: So come on, girls. Who's your favorite boy?
Chloe Valens: Where did that come from?
Norma Beatty: What are you so nervous about, C?
Grune: Hmm... I guess it would be Senel.
Shirley Fennes, Chloe Valens: What?
Grune: And Will. And Moses and Jay, too. Oh, and I couldn't possibly forget about Giet!
Norma Beatty: G-Girl, you love everything, don't you?
Shirley Fennes, Chloe Valens: Whew...

Of the Tale's games I have played probably the weakest, but still good in its own right.

This game in the Tale's game series is the weakest I have played so far. Not that it is bad as the characters were funny and well done and the story was pretty good the graphics are just a bit underdone here. Also, Tales of Symphonia and Tales of the Abyss were so expansive and encompassing while this one seemed really bogged down at times. Granted you have the cute cooking stuff and skits the fighting is the same too for the most part. However, I will say this of this entry it has the easiest fighting of the trio I have played. I didn't die once in this one, not even during the hardest fights, my characters buzz sawed through everyone. The story a brother and sister are on a boat trying to avoid an enemy of some sort, however they end up landing on a massive vessel so large it has its own towns and lakes and it is here their journey takes place. What makes this one unique is also a bit of a limiter as all the action takes place on this vessel in the sea. You basically have one main city and a couple of really small towns you only go through once and you also progress through this game in chapters. The fighting has the same flaw as the other tales games as one feels compelled to use only the main character as it is the one I got used to in this case Senel. Still despite its rather small scope it still is interesting enough to keep your interest up and the fights in this one go by super fast.